2013-2014 Business and Information Technology Courses

Accounting IThis course is designed to help students understand the basic principles of the accounting cycle. Emphasis is placed on the analysis and recording of business transactions, preparation, and interpretation of financial statements, accounting systems, banking and payroll activities, basic types of business ownership, and an accounting career orientation. Mathematics is reinforced.

Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and PublisherStudents in Microsoft IT Academies benefit from world-class Microsoft curriculum and software tools to tackle real-world challenges in the classroom environment. In the first part, students will learn to use the newest version of Microsoft Word interface, commands, and features to create, enhance, customize, share and create complex documents, and publish them. In the second part, students will learn to use the newest version of Microsoft PowerPoint interface, commands, and features to create, enhance, customize, and deliver presentations. In the last part, students will learn to use the basic features of the newest version of Publisher to create, customize, and publish a publication. English language arts are reinforced. This course can help prepare students for the Microsoft Office Specialist certification (MOS) in Word and/or PowerPoint.Microsoft Excel and AccessStudents in Microsoft IT Academies benefit from world-class Microsoft curriculum and cutting-edge software tools to tackle real-world challenges in the classroom environment. The first part of the class is designed to help you use the newest version of Microsoft Excel interface, commands, and features to present, analyze, and manipulate various types of data. Students will learn to manage workbooks as well as how to manage, manipulate, and format data. In the second part of the class, students will learn how to create and work with a database and its objects by using the new and improved features in newest version of Microsoft Access. Students will learn how to create, modify, and locate information as well as how to create programmable elements and share and distribute database information. Mathematics is reinforced. This course can help prepare students for the Microsoft Office Specialist certification (MOS) in Excel and/or Access.Multimedia and Webpage DesignThis course introduces students to topics related to business, finance, management, and marketing to cover business in the global economy, functions of business organization and management, marketing basics, and significance of business financial and risk management. English language arts, social studies, and mathematics are reinforced. Principles of Business and FinanceThis course introduces students to topics related to business, finance, management, and marketing to cover business in the global economy, functions of business organization and management, marketing basics, and significance of business financial and risk management. English language arts, social studies, and mathematics are reinforced. Introduction to Computer Science (Microsoft TEALS Partnership)This survey course is designed to offer students a” hands on” introduction to computer science that surrounds us every day. The course is far more than just learning to program. Instructors from Microsoft instructors will teach this course remotely and work with a onsite facilitator to focus on some of the “Big Ideas” of computing such as abstraction, design, concurrency and simulations. They will show applications of computing that have changed the world, discuss the history of computing, and where it will go in the future.